Vintage 1973 June Texas Monthly Summer Indulge Issue

Vintage 1973 June Texas Monthly Summer Indulge IssueIndulge Yourself This Summer Indulgences include skydiving, puppet shows, hikes, massages, float trips, entertainment for kids, and blizzards. Blizzards? By Prudence Mackintosh, Christi Seltzer, Thorne Dreyer, Felicia Coates, Harriet Howle and Ron White Features Sports The World’s Fastest Automobile Race In which nice guys finish last, if they finish at all. By Giles Tippette Politics & Policy The Unholy Trinity Incident Although the environmentalists won at the polls, the promoters of the nation's largest public works project may still turn the tide. By Dave McNeely and Lyke Thompson Film & TV Film Fatale Bright lights and movie madness in Big D. By Gregory Curtis Columns Food & Drink Take That, Baskin-Robbins! The latest scoop on Dallas ice cream. By Pat Reed and Maryln Schwartz Travel & Outdoors Scene Change, Please Try one of these extended weekend trips. You'll know you've left home. By Richard West and Griffin Smith Jr. Style & Design San Antonio Shopping Guide Where to find the best food, crafts, and arts in the Alamo City. By Mimi Swartz, Sue Z. Cooper and Ronnie Moore Business Why a Condominium? Why Not? Condominiums are springing up all over Texas. It’s a good concept, but you need to know what you're doing. By Wendy Meyer Food & Drink Freeze a Little Today How you gonna keep ’em away from your refrigerator after you’ve made your own? By Marlene Deverell-Van Meter Libations The Best Texas Wine Stores It's not easy these days to find a good wine selection at reasonable prices, but it can be done. By Griffin Smith Jr. The Stand Up Desk Behind The Lines: June 1973 THIS ISSUE TELLS OUR READERS how to enjoy Texas in the summer. That we could so easily be urging Texans to enjoy summer is a testimony to how summers have changed. It wasn’t so long ago that a Texas summer was as inhospitable to normal human existence as a 40-inch By William Broyles Miscellany Texas History Touts: June 1973 Cute Toot-TootAmtrak notwithstanding, countless unfulfilled railroad buffs still reside in Texas.For these unsatiated appetites, a genuine “little railroad that could” still makes daily runs in East Texas. The Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad was begun in 1927 as passenger service between the sawmill town of Camden and the railroad By Griffin Smith Jr. Politics & Policy Briar Patch THE SIN OF AUSTININ AUSTIN RECENTLY, DURING A public hearing on skinnydipping in Lake Travis, local resident Louis Steinbach testified to attentive city councilmen: “God has the power to destroy this city for its sin…and officials had better realize it.” We do not want to appear soft on sin, but By Gregory Curtis, Wendy Meyer and Allan Turner